DALLAS — Southwest Airlines Co., the leading carrier at McCarran International Airport, has joined a sweeping increase of $10 in the price of many domestic round-trip airfares, citing the need to offset high fuel prices.
LOS ANGELES — Warner Bros. Television says it has fired Charlie Sheen from the hit sitcom “Two and a Half Men.” The studio that produces the CBS series said the decision was made after “careful consideration.” Sheen’s erratic personal life had prompted Warner to suspend production on the show for the season, and Sheen in return had been waging an angry media campaign against the show’s producers.
Outside a ballroom where a United Way luncheon was about to start Thursday at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas mayoral candidate Carolyn Goodman greeted a supporter who was, as many are, excited about her candidacy and ready to vote.
A 4-year-old girl was in “extremely critical” condition Sunday evening after a medical scan showed that metal fragments, possibly from a bullet, were in her head, Las Vegas police said.
What began as a fight Sunday afternoon between two 12-year-old boys ended when one shot the other boy’s father in the leg, Las Vegas police said.